2024-11-18

Snow fell overnight. I went to the park that I know has a lot of cottonwoods and conifers lining the river, hoping to get some nice snowy scenes.

As I walked down to the park side of the river, another guy was walking around with the same big white lens. A chickadee landed on the end of his lens as he was shooting squirrels and birds. These animals are very habituated, obviously hand fed in this picnic area. Makes for sort of easy photography.

This variety of black-capped chickadee, and the omnipresent magpie, are now sort of exotic birds. Magpies don’t exist on the west coast (our Steller’s Jay seem to fill a similar niche), and I don’t see these particular chickadees either.